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Cummin" Georgia
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Established 1908
Circulation over Forsyth, Fulton, Cherokee, Dawson
Lumpkin, Hall and Gwinnett Counties
The Paper That Appreciates
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Published Every Thursday at Cummin*, Georgia.
Roy P. Otwell ....Editor and Owner
James L. Reeves.. .. Associate Editor
A. L. Henderson ....Associate Editor
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Entered at the Post Office at Cummlng, Ga„ August 10,
1910, as mail matter of the second class.
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Official Organ of Forsyth County
and City of Cumming
Nature is grand until the weeds begin to grow.
Advertising is expensive to those who neglect it.
So far as we know, boarding houses have no sit-down
strikes.
Wars are neither avoided, nor won, by wishful think
ing.
What Matsuoka learned in Berlin will be evident In
the Far East.
Add similies: “As friendly as an Insurance agent.’’
(Excuse it, boys!)
People do not exist in order that institutions may con
tinue; it’s the other way around.
The trouble with getting ahead in life is that so few
pace setters stay ahead.
Human nature encourages mankind to find excuses
for individuals desire.
Forsyth County might seek to save lives on its high
ways during the balance of 1941.
Pressing Public Problems: Who is supposed to obey
the traffic regulations in Cumming?
Nearly every person, who breaks into the press, is
afraid of something besides his own ignorance.
Most of 'the good tlmgis that you hear about yourself
come from those who know what quid pro quo means.
Many a male will discover, in the month of June,
that there are drafts more serious than the selective
service statute.
Russia has an uncanny knack for timing her non
aggression pacts so that they will do the small country
no good.
A debate would be useful if the participants were
more interested in light and less concerned with the jud
ges' decision.
Puzzle: If the taxes that were levied in say 1938,
nearly broke the country, what will happen when taxes
are levied for 1944?
These British are evidently bad people; we see where
innocent Mr. Hitler has been assaulted again, this time
in the Balkans.
The nations that want a free world, and expect to
enjoy it. should emulate the example of the free-booters
and work together.
Bid you ever stop to think that this issue of The
News represents about the cheapest investment that you
can make?
The main rivalry, in so far as trans-Atlantic air
routes are concerned, involves acquisition of government
funds to subsidize the enterprise.
American Picture: Bold business man, representing
private Initiative, seeking government favors and beijv
aching about governmental expenses.
About the middle of this summer the people of the
United States will suddenly discover that m|ass produc
tion of defense materials is at hand.
Silly Idea: That the Uuited States is going to build
ships, load them with supplies and send them into the
Atlantic ocean for German P Booats to sink.
The world will not change in a day; neither will the
human race. Consequently, the rabid reformers might as
well sit down and take a few quiet breaths.
If you have settled all other problems, you might fig
ure out what kind of a world we will have if Hitler, Mus
solini, Staline and a few Japs regulate everything.
The professions, as we understand it, used to put
ethics and service above cash Income. Asa result pro
fessional men, in days that are gone, enjoyed unusual
public respect.
Whenever labor, industry, finance, or any other eco
nomic group, becomes more powerful than government,
the people of the United States need more government.
The Forsyth County News
CHILDREN OFTEN SUFFER
That th-e average parent is taking a more intelligent
interest in the development of children is one of the
hopeful signs of the present era. But, how often do adults
fail to appreciate the sensitive natures of inexperienced
childhood and fail to make just allowances for the view
points of undeveloped minds?
The tragedies in real life that afflict a child are often
passed over carelessly. The depth of feeling of which
a small child is capable is seldom appreciated as the
following story illustrates.
In a large city, a fifteen-year-old girl pretended sick
ness rather than attend classes an face the daily persecut
ion of more fortunate classmates who made life almost
unendurable by their taunts and jibes at tattered clothing
and worn-out shoes. Rather than submit to the inevitable
humiliation, this young girl crept into the bathroom of
her home, locked the door and put the end of a gas tube
to her mouth and inhaled 'the deadly fumes.
Her father, unemployed for a long time, smelled the
escaping gas and rescued his unconscious daughter. A
passing patrolman quickly summoned an ambulance but
knelt beside the body of the girl and revived her before
the doctor arrived. The next day, the policeman visited
her at the hospital, carrying her a pair of shoes.
The instance is worth repeating if its reading will
lead any grown up in Forsyth County to be more thought
ful and considerate of children. It may also prove worth
while if parents use it to demonstrate to their children
the error of mistaken fun at the expense of an unfortun
ate victim.
BRITISH NAVY HAS PROBLEM
One of the disadvantages that the British face in
their desperate efforts to protect the North Atlantic sea
lane comes from the attitude of the Irish, who steadfastly
decline to permit the British navy to use the anchorages
at Lough Swilly and B-erehaven.
The possessions of these bases, which were used in
the World War, would greatly extend the British convoy
and airplane range.
Another disadvantage springs from the lack of de
stroyers. When the World War ended the British navy
had 435 destroyers and, in addition, 229 Allied destroyers
were in active service. Today the British have only 220
destroyers, of which fifty are over-age American destroy
ers recently acquired in the swap with the United States.
Many Americans overlook the advantages which
Germany has in the possession of Norwegian and French
porta on the Atlantic, which enable submarines to reach
their stations more quickly and safely than during the
World War. Meanwhile, the British blockade patrol must
spread out to cover the widely extended coastline and
carry out similar duties in the Mediterranean, where it
combats the Italian naval strength.
In the World War the German fleet was blockaded
in the Baltic, from which it could emerge only through
the North Sea and the Kiel canaT. Against the Kaiser’s
fleet the British could throw their complete sea-power
because the Italian, Russia, French and Japanese navy
was on the Allied side.
In the present war the British fleet, much reduced
in size, faces the job without the help of any other fleet
anil with the Italian fleet in opposition, the Japanese tleet
threatening and the French fleet problematical.
SHIPS AND MORE SHIPS
The British admit the loss of 500,000 tons of ships
in the month of March, which indicates that the Germans
are sinking vessels at the rate of 6,000,000 tons a year.
What this means can be realized when we consider
the 1,150 merchant ships that make up the 7,100,000 tons
of the American sea going merchant marine. It can be
understood when we realize that the British merchant
fleet, largest in the world when the war began, consisted
of 10,000,000 tons.
Up to this time it is estimated that the Germans
have already destroyed 6,000,000 tons. Some of this loss
has been offset, so far as the British are concerned, by
the acquisition of the fleets of other nations but it is
evident that the shipping problem will becomie acute
long before the United States can construct an emergency
fleet of sufficient proportions to guarantee the “bridge
of ships” across the Atlantic.
We have not been able to secur an accurate picture
of the ship building program in the United States. Chair
man Land, of the Maritime Commission, says that the
country, is building 332 ships, totaling 1.700,000 tons in
43 shipbuilding plants. All of thes vessels will be com
pleted by the summer of 1942.
The British are building, in this country, GO vessels
but we are not advised whether th y are included in the
figures given out by Chairman Land. In addition, under
the Lend-Lease Act the Presid nt has earmarked funds
for the construction of 212 new merchant ships to be
constructed on half a hundred new ways that are to b
built.
The British, it is stimiated, will be able to construct
new ships at the rate of 1,000,000 tons a year. Our own
production, this year, will not be as much. Next year,
however, under various emergency programs it is hoped
to increase this figure and to reach a peak of 5,000,000
tons a year in 1943.
TAXES $lO9 PER CAPITA
The people of the United States paid approximately
$14,300,000 for government in the year ending June 30,
1940, according to the Census Bureau.
This means $409 per capita, or about $4lO per family
It is interesting to observe that the $lO9 was divided
between the various governments as follows: Federal,
$39; State $27; and local government, $43.
It is interesting to objerve that property taxes, which
yielded forty-five per cent of all state revenues in 1919
produced only six per cent, in 1940, Sales taxes, almost
non-exigtent under state laws in 1919, yielded forty per
cent of gross state collections last pear, thus supplanting
the property tax as a main source of state revenue.
State tax collections in 1940 were $4,171,000,000
Motor fuel sales and motor vehicle and drivers’ licenses
yielded $1,233,000,000 or thirty per cent of gross tax
collections. This was more than the total collected by
all states in 1925.
BAD NEWS FROM THE BALKAN
News from the battlefront in the Balkins was not
comforting last week to those who were hoping that the
German offensive w ould be stopped in its tracks.
Readers should not overlook the probability that
bitter fighting is ahead and that disaster may be the
misfortune of the Allied forces. Bad news is inevitable
but irretrievable calamity is not indicated at this time.
Hitler’s soldiers have been in Rumania since October.
They did not go there for recreation. It may be assumed
that the time has been used to prepare for the present
attacks. The Nazi military machine is probably stronger
than it was when France collapsed and we should not
expect a miraculous deliverance from its furious assaults.
Early succsses in Yugoslavia and Greece have been
forseen. It is not yet clear how the situation is developing
and we must await details to appraise the situation. All
that we can be sure of, at this time, is that the Greeks,
the Yugoslavs and the British have a hard battle to
wage and they will be lucky if they manage to stop the
Nazi steamroller.
REDUCE DROWNING
Vacation time will soon be here, and, judging from
the experience of other years, 3,500 lives will be lost by
accidental drowning during the next few months. This
represents only one-half of the total number of people
drowned each year but they are crowded in the three
summer months.
The annual death toll in the United States from
drowning grows larger each year. More than one-half
of those dying in this manner are poung persons under
twenty-four years of age. The largest single age group
of persons drowned in the group of youths between
fifteen and nineteen years of age.
Every Vacationist should be careful this summer. A
period of rest and relaxation from work is fine and
necessary but carelessness should not accompany it. To
venture too far in the surf or to take chances in a swift
current means running the risk of drowning. Swimmers
should be extremely careful.
Speeding Naval Construction
The construction of combatant ships for the Navy
has been speeded up with the Jesuit that the first of the
45,000-ton battleships are scheduled to be commissioned
about thirteen months ahead of time. Some 10,000-ton
cruisers are as much as ten months ahead of schedule
and even destroyers are being pushed to completion
nearly six months ahead of contract time.
These reports relate to the construction progress of
ships that were underway before .the two-ocean navy
was provided by Congress. This will require about 245
ships, already contracted for, but, as we understand it,
only thirty are now under actual construction. New facili
ties are being rushed to expedite completion of the two
ocean navy.
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NOT A “TWO-FRONT” WAR
It is interesting to read the military experts who have
had much to say about the “two-front war” Most of them
seem to be under the impression that Germany’s attack
upon Yugoslavia and Greece makes the present a “two
front” struggle.
We think this is a mistaken idea because the German
Army is not now engaged upqn arfy fro/t except that in
the Balkins. Since the fall of France, the mighty military
machine of Germany has been unable to come to grips
with the army of Great Britain. Idleness makes it avail
able for offensives in the Balkins and in North Africa.
There is nothing to be gained by under-estimating
the striking power of the Nazi machine. The German
soldier is capable and courageous and the German General
Staff does its preparatory work in an unusually thorough
manner.
When the Nazi legions received theorder to march
in the Balkins, the world’s greatest military machine was
ready for action. It was not engaged in battle on any
other front. The Balkin offensive affords Hitler an op
portunity to use his preponderant miltary iforces.
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Whenever an individual disagrees with you he is
either smarter than you, in which case he should have
your respect, or he is dumber, in which case he should
have your sympathy.
Frances Theatre
Gumming, Georgia
Thursday, April 24
SPRING PARADE
Staring Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer
Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26
BREED OF THE BORDER
Staring 808 STEELE
Saturday April 26
Zane Grey’s King Of The Royal Mounted-Chap
ter No. 1 MAN HUNT.
Monday and Tuesday, April 28 and 29
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
Staring Bob Steele, Claire Carleton, Milburn Stone
Wednesday and Thursday, April 30-May 1
DANGER FLIGHT
Staring Tailspin Tommy with John Trent, Marporie Reynolds, Milburn Stone
Thursday, April 24, 1941.